On 29 September 2017 at 10:57, Jake Petroules <jake.petrou...@qt.io> wrote: >> Kai, >> Rather than a new mirror it might be sufficient to just alter the automatic >> selection to use California for New Zealand clients (I'm unsure how it >> works/how feasible that is)? > > We use MaxMind GeoIP commercial database for IP address geolocation, and it > selects the best mirror based on that. Not sure of the particulars beyond > that or how easy/possible it is to "override" things like that. > > It's not always a very reliable system in general, since I for example get a > mirror on the US East Coast despite Berkeley being a 20-minute drive from me, > because my IP has the wrong location in that DB. > > However, if we know that NZ is only physically connected to Australia and > California then it might indeed make sense to hardcode the Berkeley mirror > for NZ users.
Here are the 2 sets of cables involved b/w NZ, US and Japan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia%E2%80%93Japan_Cable https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Cross_Cable Maybe we should ask the NSA to remove their MitM boxes... ;) I will try to see if overriding the mirror helps. Right now, the MaintenaceTool is downloading at less than 10KiB/s!?! and sometimes get stalled... Then i did a google speed test in parallel of the MaintenaceTool and I got 5 MiB/s (mega-bytes) both way to/from Google's Auckland servers. So my end point (Auckland office) is not the bottle-neck. A speed test with - DigitalOcean San Franciso gives me 3.59 Mbps (mega-bits) - DigitalOcean New York: 4.56 Mbps - DigitalOcean Singapour: 5.88 Mbps - Australia: 18.66 Mbps - Taiwan: .. stuck... - Japan: .. stuck... oh wait! na, stuck again - NZ DSL: 61.08 Mbps - 4 Mbps to London, Netherland These bits-per-second figure are not accurate, but helps painting the picture I think. It might be a good idea to contact the guys who mirrors Linux distro and co in new Zeland (ftp://ucmirror.canterbury.ac.nz comes to my mind) Chris > >> >> Regards, >> Mike >> ________________________________________ >> From: Interest >> <interest-bounces+michael.corcoran=outlook....@qt-project.org> on behalf of >> Kai Koehne <kai.koe...@qt.io> >> Sent: Thursday, 28 September 2017 10:40 p.m. >> To: Christian Gagneraud; interest@qt-project.org >> Subject: Re: [Interest] strip: Customise Qt intaller, remove *.qt.io >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Interest [mailto:interest-bounces+kai.koehne=qt...@qt-project.org] >>> On Behalf Of Christian Gagneraud >>> Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2017 9:29 AM >>> To: interest@qt-project.org >>> Subject: [Interest] strip: Customise Qt intaller, remove *.qt.io >>> >>> Hi there, >>> >>> I would like to customise the Qt installer, not only by adding new >>> "resources", but i would like to disable some/most "*.qt.io" >>> resources. >>> >>> The reason for removing qt.io are multiples: >>> - From New Zealand, the Qt installer spends 5 to 10 minutes to fetch >>> "*.qt.io" >>> stuff, and i'm getting tired of it (blame NZ, unfortunately), and i think >>> it is >>> unacceptable for my potential users (co-workers). >>> [...] >>> PS: I have a Qt license, could this be useful on that topic? >> >> Please also raise this with Qt Support then. Maybe we just have to add >> another mirror in the region then. >> >> Regards >> >> Kai >> _______________________________________________ >> Interest mailing list >> Interest@qt-project.org >> http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest >> _______________________________________________ >> Interest mailing list >> Interest@qt-project.org >> http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest > > -- > Jake Petroules - jake.petrou...@qt.io > The Qt Company - Silicon Valley > Qbs build tool evangelist - qbs.io > _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest
